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Intersection between gender and armed conflict has been overlooked for centuries. There was little to no understanding of gendered harm the conflict brings to women’s lives and means to redress it. With somewhat increased understanding of women’s experiences in conflict came the realization that tending to the multi-faceted needs of survivors is equally important and reparations for gross violatio
In recent years, with corporate scandals and the global financial crisis there is continuous attention in the area of corporate governance which is the new concept in corporate world these days. It is seen as a moral duty and includes supporting the conformity to law and showing ethical guide. Corporate Governance is seen as a significant tool as firms’ financial performance when investors take an
Studies of virus capsids opens up new opportunities to develop different kind of cargo systems, but also the understanding of the transportation and the releasing of different kinds of cargo molecules. Virus capsids is a protein shell of a virus that encapsulates different types of infecting nucleic acid sequences in their native forms. One of these capsids is the Hepatitis B virus capsid that in
The Swedish County Council (SCC) has witnessed a decline in public political participation and a lack of trust in government instances over the last decade. These problems are particularly pronounced in socially and economically challenged neighbourhoods where the SCC is requesting new methods to increase public participation. This qualitative case study examines how Helsingborg municipality, Swed
Based on a discourse analysis of police narratives on internal controls of foreigners, this thesis examines how discourses of suspicion are produced within policing. Methodologically and empirically engaging with interviews with police officers operating throughout Sweden, and theoretically drawing on the diffused practices of mobility management, the analysis shows that the police officers practi
This essay inquires into the possible relationship between market oriented reforms in Swedish housing and education policy and Malmö’s sociospatial development by posing the question has Malmö become a neoliberal city? If so, how? Asserting David Harvey and Jamie Peck’s theories, and the concepts neoliberalism, neoliberalization, and risk downloading, the text argues that the central state has, si
The aim of this study is to investigate the implementation process of a political action in Malmö. The empirical case is a recently ended ”area-programme” in the city-district of Segevång that had as its main objective to social sustainability in the area. The study is based on theories of implementation such as the top-down and the bottom-up perspectives, the latter of which is exemplified with
The notion of a subnational role conception is frequently absent in the literature of role conceptions within the European Union (EU), despite that the perspective of multilevel governance has acknowledged the importance of subnational actors within the governance process of the EU. The study is based on semi-structured interviews with members of the Swedish delegation to the Committee of the Regi
This thesis examines the situation of people living in statelessness by asking 'What is statelessness?' With the aim of contributing to the contemporary understanding of the topic, the text reviews both the resonating theories of Hannah Arendt, as well as original interviews with people living in statelessness today. In accordance with recent critique directed towards the Arendtian school
This essay focus on the structure behind policy making in the city of Malmö. Leaning on the theory of Cultural Political Economy it attempts to descirbe Malmö's policy making as a product of the path-dependent and path-shaping nature of the political process. This perspective suggests that researchers take in account not only the contemporary discourse and semiosis, but also examine the materi
Massmedia är en institution i samhället för givande och granskning av information till befolkningen kring viktiga frågor och händelser. Syftet är att analysera, tolka och förstå artiklar som rapporterade om ubåtskränkningar under oktober månad 2014. Kan journalister på de största tidningarna utan bevis spekulera och påstå saker i artiklar, om så, varför? Teoretiska inriktningar utgörs av begreppen
In light of a rise in the number and recurrences of armed conflicts, the purpose of this thesis is to investigate the role of interim constitutions in balancing short-term peacemaking and long-term peacebuilding goals in war-to-peace transitions where a new constitution is to be written. Drawing on peacebuilding and constitution making literature, the study examines the effect of the duration of i
Värdering av obebyggd tomtmark för småhus kan ibland vara svårt då det saknas ett bra ortsprismaterial. Ännu svårare är att värdera tomtmark för småhus som är bebyggda med byggnader på ofri grund. Tomtmark med byggnader på ofri grund upplåtna med nyttjanderätter anses ha ett lägre värde än tomtmark som är obebyggd eller tomtmark som är bebyggd av fastighetens ägare. Det beror på att nyttjanderätteThe objective of this work is to examine the impact on value that a house on leasehold has on the underlying land in a partition ordinance. In order to build a foundation and create an understanding about houses on leasehold, partitiontools and different methods of valuation I undertook literature studies. The literature consisted of, among other things, preparatory work for FBL and the Court of A
Innovation has become increasingly important for the performance of firms and nations. At the same time, financial markets have come to exert a great deal of influence over resource allocation in publically traded firms. A significant body of evidence suggests that certain actors exert pressure on corporate managers to maximize short term financial results at the expense of investments in long ter
Med en teoretisk utgångspunkt i engagemang, volontärskap och ledarskap - mer specifikt transformativt ledarskap - har uppsatsen som syfte att undersöka och analysera hur ledningen i en organisation som bygger på frivillig arbetskraft skapar och bibehåller engagemang. Vi vill även undersöka hur ledarskapet fungerar i en organisation som präglas av en stor omsättning på människor, samt där en person
Sweden’s road traffic is responsible for a great part of the emissions of greenhouse gases in the country. Conventional vehicles, driven by fossil fuels, have low efficiency and emits environmentally destructive particles. Electric vehicles can be the solution! Electric vehicles have no local emissions while driving and the electric motors of today have an efficiency of above 90 %. But there are s
The sexual assaults in Köln on New Year’s Eve 2016 and similar events in Sweden started a debate in Swedish articles and editorials regarding the explanations to these assaults. Through a critical discourse analysis, the aim of this study is to examine how specific world views are upheld by focusing on how the writers argue reasons for the assaults’ occurrence. Furthermore, the study aims to exami
Fidgeting is a common behavior, though often with negative associations. In this master thesis positive effects of fidgeting, and possible connections with creativity are investigated. By conducting both literature research and several studies, four main reasons for fidgeting were identified. Relax, when fidgeting is done to decrees stress and anxiety; Focus, when increased attention and focus is
